Meet Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy's 31-year-old grandson who's carrying on his family's political dynasty
- Jack Kennedy Schlossberg, 31, is the grandson of John F. Kennedy and the son of Caroline Kennedy.
- He has endorsed Kamala Harris for president and mocked his cousin, third-party candidate RFK Jr.
- The Yale and Harvard grad has shown he has a sense of humor and is an avid paddleboarder.
There's a new Kennedy in town.
Jack Kennedy Schlossberg is the 31-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy and the son of Caroline Kennedy.
He was recently the subject of internet rumors claiming he dated pop singer Selena Gomez, 31, between 2020 and 2021, and in July, he was named Vogue's first-ever political correspondent.
Despite being known as a member of one of America's most iconic political families, Schlossberg has asserted he has no plans to enter a race of his own. However, he's already making a name for himself with online videos that have garnered him hundreds of thousands of followers and a passion for his family's political history.
He's also taken a more active role in the Democratic party by endorsing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president ... rather than voicing support for his cousin, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whom he's openly mocked on social media.
Here's what you need to know about Jack Schlossberg.
He was named for his maternal grandfather, John F. Kennedy, and his maternal great-grandfather, John Vernou Bouvier III.
Kennedy came from an Irish-Catholic background, while Edwin Schlossberg was raised Jewish.
He later attended The Collegiate School, an all-boys private school in Manhattan, the New York Post reported. He later attended Yale University as an undergrad. He'd go on to graduate from Harvard in 2022.
Schlossberg is the lone grandson of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy and the eldest surviving male descendant of the former president's immediate family.
Rose and Tatiana Schlossberg are both married, but Jack appears to be single.
When appearing on the "Today" show in 2022, Schlossberg shared that his sister Tatiana had recently welcomed a son named Edwin, after their father. Schlossberg also said he'd moved back to his "childhood bedroom" to be closer to his family after graduating from Harvard.
John F. Kennedy Jr. died after an aircraft he was piloting crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1999.
His wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, also died in the accident.
The couple did not have any children together, so there were no surviving Kennedy heirs through Kennedy Jr.
After Schlossberg graduated from Yale University in 2015 with a history degree, he entered Harvard Law School in the fall of 2017 and Harvard Business School in the fall of 2018.
"I'm inspired by my family's legacy of public service," Schlossberg said in his first live interview on "Today" in 2017. "It's something that I'm very proud of."
He graduated from the university in 2022, and in April 2023, Schlossberg announced in an interview with People magazine that he had passed the New York State Bar exam.
His mother, Caroline, passed the same bar exam in 1989. His uncle John F. Kennedy Jr. famously failed the New York bar exam twice before ultimately passing on his third try in 1990.
"I went to law school super liberal, and I came out of the program with the same thinking — just realizing that I was still right but that I had not known what I was talking about before," he told Vogue in July.
"I'm still trying to make my own way, figure things out, so stay tuned. I don't know what I'm going to do," he told "Today" in 2017. He again told Savannah Guthrie in 2022 that he had "no plans" to enter politics at the moment.
While he hasn't committed to a career in politics just yet, Schlossberg has taken an increasingly public role with the family's Profile in Courage Awards, which honors world leaders, and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. According to People, Schlossberg has also worked as a Senate page and intern for former Secretary of State John Kerry. He spoke at the 2020 Democratic National Convention as a representative of his family and has appeared with his mother at many public events.
He has publicly endorsed Kamala Harris as the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate. He appeared in a video with second gentleman Doug Emhoff on Instagram, saying, "I can't wait to vote for Kamala Harris."
In May, he ridiculed his cousin, independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in a series of social media videos that The New York Times called "uncharacteristically un-Kennedyesque." In the videos, which he posted to Instagram to mixed responses, he adopted different accents to present caricatures of voters.
As one character, Jimmy, he says RFK Jr. is "lying to you" by suggesting he's a third-party candidate. "Him and Trump go way freaking back," he said. "Don't be fooled by that. Don't throw away your vote."
As another character, Anthony, he adds, "You don't got my vote."
Schlossberg has over 300,000 followers on Instagram, where he often shares photos and videos related to his paddleboarding hobby as well as political content. He also has over 350,000 followers on TikTok and has received nearly 4 million likes.
He's also shown that he has a sense of humor. In July 2023, a series of lighthearted videos Schlossberg posted to Instagram about the downsides of eating at restaurants went viral.
"We have to wait there to eat something that we don't get to choose, really, what it is," Schlossberg said to the camera in one video. "We only get a few choices and you don't know what any of them are gonna taste like or what's good … and we're gonna sit there and wait for some guy to ask us a question. And we're gonna have to talk to some guy about what we wanna eat."
He also frequently lip syncs to songs and has even shown off his Australian accent impression.
Secretary of State John Kerry once said of him, "A sense of humor is not genetic, but apparently in the Kennedy family, it can be inherited. In President Kennedy's grandson, Jack Schlossberg, this quality seems to abide."
"I'm a silly goose — a silly goose who's trying, just trying, to get the truth out there," Schlossberg told Vogue.